the head of maths, fran ashraf, took a double class. 50 year nine pupils learning together. the two points that it crosses, draw a straight line through. i so, they get specialist teaching. this kind of contingency planning shows the lengths schools are willing to go to to keep pupils learning in school. but also how worried they are about this extra disruption after two years of the pandemic, especially for teenagers facing exams this summer. hoping this latest covid wave passes quickly, year 11s looking forward to gcse exams. it s my year 11 year, i ve worked my whole school life towards sitting gcses and i want to do the best i possibly can. i wouldn t say i m actually hoping to actually do the exams, but i think it s actually important because for me if we actually go to another lockdown, we re going to get teachers assessed grades. i ve got your cold writing tasks. 100 miles away in birmingham, this primary has bought air purifier machines for every class. last term, the autumn t
but also how worried they are about this extra disruption after two years of the pandemic, especially for teenagers facing exams this summer. hoping this latest covid wave passes quickly, year 115 looking forward to gcse exams. it s my year 11 year, i ve worked my whole school life towards sitting gcses and i want to do the best i possibly can. i wouldn t say i m actually hoping to actually do the exams but i think it s actually important because for me if they actually go to another lockdown we are going to get teachers assessed grades. 100 miles away in birmingham this primary has bought air purifier machines for every class. last term, the autumn term, we were very fortunate. we had less than ten children off with covid. we only had a couple of members of staff, and none of those were teachers. very, very different. we ve got more children cases than we had during the whole of the autumn term just in this last week, and the same for staff.
so they are merging some lessons today. the head of maths, irfan ashraf, took a double class. 50 year 9 pupils learning together. the two points that it crosses, draw a straight line through. l ..so they get specialist teaching. this kind of contingency planning shows the lengths schools are willing to go to to keep pupils learning in school. but also how worried they are about this extra disruption after two years of the pandemic, especially for teenagers facing exams this summer. hoping this latest covid wave passes quickly, year 11s looking forward to gcse exams. it s my year 11 year, i ve worked my whole school life towards sitting gcses and i want to do the best i possibly can. i wouldn t say i m actually hoping to actually do the exams but i think it s actually important because for me if they actually go to another lockdown they are going to be teachers assessed grades. 100 miles away in birmingham this primary has bought air purifier
of his ability based on the last few years, with the pandemic. so, how is tension created here? just down the road at malbank school and sixth form, tests and exams are also weighing on the minds of pupils who have just received results for their mock exams. in just a few months, they ll be sitting gcses and a levels. myself having covid, that took a few, like, three weeks out of, what. like, before the mocks. so that was pretty hard to deal with. teachers being off didn t really help at all because this is one of the most important years we re going to have. i think exams need to go ahead as normal, but i think it would have been nice to have a bit of a mixture of teacher assessed grades. year 9 was only half the length it should have been and, obviously, in year 10, we lost probably three months. see you later, have a good evening. whilst pupils are preparing to sit exams, the head is worried about getting the staff to ensure they go ahead. typically, we would have quite a lot of the
of pupils who have just received results for their mock exams. in just a few months, they will be sitting gcses and a levels. myself having covid, that took a few, like, three weeks out of what. like, before the mocks. so that was pretty hard to deal with. teachers being off didn t really help at all because this is one of the most important years we re going to have. i think exams need to go ahead as normal, but i think it would have been nice to have a bit of a mixture of teacher assessed grades. year 9 was only half the length it should have been and, obviously, in year 10, we lost probably three months. see you later, have a good evening. whilst pupils are preparing to sit exams, the head is worried about getting the staff to ensure they go ahead. typically, we would have quite a lot of the retired community eager to come and support us as exam invigilators, and that is proving incredibly difficult because. quite understandably, they re very concerned about coming into a school set